Week 20 - 16/05/10 - 22/05/10

Week 20, my first exam week.

16/05/10
21:31
Added more decoration to The Forgotten Sea.
Though, I still need some sprites from Drew, to finish all the water areas.

22:33
Alright, I done alot.
I fixed some bugs in the swimming engine.
Its FINISHED now.
Next to that, I finished the Forgotten Sea quest.
Its an easy quest. Gathering Pearls.
It all works now, there were some bugs.
Anyway, here are some screens:






Oh, it will look nicer.
But Drew still has to make some final underwater decorations. No worries =)

17/05/10
lol, done some Dirkels.
Uuuhm, yeah, hard to tell, but I've done alot.
Made all the quest logs right for the Swamp Cave.
That was a very hard to do.
I hope it is right, I will test later today.
Hehe, if this works, I am almost done with Dirkels.
Only have to place more decoration, and fix the ending.
Then test it, and do spelling checks, and done!

The release date will be anounced in the upcoming trailer.

17:44
Great news everyone!
I fully tested the whole Swamp Storyline.
And the two offquests.
The quest logs and stuff work perfectly.
I've found some typos and minor bugs, I've solved them.

18/05/10
20:15
So, here I am, 20:15,
I will start my FULL test of Dirkels.
Lets pray to god everything works.
I will do every quest, but I will not read everything,
so I will be done quite fast I think.

Aaand... PLAY!

20:24
Damn it.
I've done the castle, and some begin quests in the grasslands.
But then I got stuck in a invisible wall in Grasslands 2.
Fuck, now I got to do it over.
Also, next to that bug, I found 5 other bugs or things to do already.
=P

Aaaand... PLAY!

21:08
Very cool, I was able to play it till the end.
Hehe, it takes around 45 minutes.
But ofcourse, I didn't really read anything, and I knew what to do, and how to do it fast.
Oh, I haven't done all the offquests, and not the water quests, so only main story.



Anyway, about the bugs/things to do,
I found many, I got a list of 21 things now.
#6 is already fixed (got stuck at grasslands 2 in wall)



I am going to fix them all,
then I will test it one more time, and then...!
...I make more shops and some small things I am planning (doesnt take long)
Then I will make trailer, with the release date.
Oh, and if you want to know,
on the end I was level 9 =D
If I did all the off quests, level 10.
Nice ending level :D


21:22
Damn, I have worked fast!
From 21 lines of my 'to do-list',
I only have 8 things to do now.
But, remember, these 8 things, are the hard ones.
I actually did all the silly, easy fix-able things first.
Now I will start with the anoying stuff...

23:09
#5 - HUD fast buttons
I fixed that, in the HUD, there are 'quick buttons' to the sub-huds,
like the inventory or the quest log, stats... etc.
Damn, this took me an hour and a half, but look:


23:37
#11 - At the Grigator Taxi, make it able to talk to him again, when you've just talked to him, but ran away, or ended the conversation.
#20 - At the Grigator Taxi talk, fix the text, when you've done the Swamp Storyline (because then he should say something else)
Both finished.

19/05/10
Lets continue...

10:37
Added some monsters in the Wetlands.

11:17
Made a GREAT new feature!
Rewards from Achievements!
Some achievements reward you now.

13:25
Added some items, including the first shield in-game.
This shield is quite easy to get, it is an achievement item.
Wich is easy to achieve... if you are lucky =)
Next to that, I added a funny reward.
I think I am gonna fix some more bugs now btw.
#16 - Add Quest or Deliver mark at the Swamp Lord.

15:59
Done:
#16 - The Swamp Lord should have quest, or quest-delivery marks on his head when he has a quest, or when you got to deliver a quest at him.
#19 - Let the Villagers have hands

16:57
Made a book: "The Elites".
That was #2 on my list. 1 more thing to do: "Make the tutorial better".

17:10
The tutorial is easy.
And you gain to level 1 at the end (you start as level 0).
So, done everything on the list now!
Yaay!

Now I got to test the game fully again.
Then I start making... the trailer.

18:12
finished testing.
Found 7 Minor bugs, 2 very hard to fix bugs.
So, total, 9 things added on the list.

During the test, I made some screens, because lately, alot of new people
come to the forum.
So, here are a few dirkel-screens:






Look at my armour improving xD
At the end I got the bandana from that green boss.

18:36
Fixed 2/9 bugs.
Hehe, lol, this post is long.
I was free today, desided to finish Dirkels.
I hope I manage to do it.

18:39
I tested the game with magic last time.
And I saw that your mana goes down very hard.
So right now, I got, that if you have more then 10 wisdom,
that you auto-gain mana.

So, when you start the game, the best thing to do is, to stay as swordman till level 5 or something.
and train your Wisdom to 10.
Then it is smart to start as a real mage.

18:49
Fixed 5/9 already.

22:11
Finished all bugs. 9/9.

20/05/10
Today there will be more study, then Dirkels,
since I got a math exam tomorrow.

14:57
Gonna test Dirkels again.
This time I will do every off-quest.
Aaand... START!

15:29
wow, one and an half hour?
Anyway, I tested till the Balderit Storyline.
Found some minor things to do.
Like the mana goes up way too fast.
And the lieutenant can't be killed with magic somehow.
I fix it later today.

Here I looked like a normal Balderit:


Here I finally got the golden Balderit Chest. Kind of the best chest in the demo.


22:01
New spells are added in the game!


Earth only has one spell, wich very short range, so it is hard to
us and not get hit, but he does more damage then other spells.
Still, kind of sucks, but earth will be very impressive in the future.
=D

I love breathing fire!

21/05/10
Had work + exam, so no Dirkels today.

22/05/10
12:15
I am making a list, of all the 'new' things in Dirkels,
and the stuff that is improved.
This is because today, I will be shooting the trailer.
The trailer has 2 parts, the first part is to show all the new features.
Second part is to show all the impressive things in the game.
Improved/New features:
- Magic
- Skills
- Stats
- Message Box
- Inventory + Equipment
- Shops
- Leveling
- Battle system
- Cutscenes
There are way more I think, but I think this is enough for the first part.